Top 30 Historically Accurate Movies - WatchMojo Reaction

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  @shawngilbride99 · 2 years ago

  I'm genuinely surprised that Waterloo wasn't anywhere on this list, even as an Honorable mention

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  @hoshinoutaite · 2 years ago

  The only real tragedy of Master and Commander? It was released the same year as Return of the King, which dominated the Oscars, and overshadowed a truly great film with excellent performances. Both movies have stood the test of time very well.

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  @keithharris3734 · 2 years ago

  No All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)?  That movie was amazing with full range battle scenes.  It captured the spirit of the age and the desperation and despair of a generation.

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  @shantodas8184 · 2 years ago

  the big short is an hugely underrated movie. if you want to dive deep into the 2008 financial crisis, i would suggest the big short, margin call and too big to fail. these 3 can be called as an unofficial trilogy which tell different point of views(investors,bank and government) of the 2008 financial crisis

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  @CivilWarMan · 2 years ago

  It really speaks to the quality of Apollo 13 that they could make a suspenseful scene that consisted entirely of a couple dozen guys with slide rules doing math.

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  @Mr.KingHistory · 2 years ago

  My most favorite story from the A Bridge Too Far movie was when Anthony Hopkins was being observed by the real Colonel John Frost during the scene where Frost was running as the Germans were sniping at him when he tried to cross to the opposite side of the street. Frost would continuously tell Hopkins “you’re running too fast”. Hopkins is dumbfounded and reminds Frost that there were German snipers. Frost responds “I know, but I still walked.”

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  @steveclarke6257 · 2 years ago

  If you want a more recent film in this category of "historic" based history films- Look for "One Life" - A film staring Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Price and Helena Bonham-Carter - an amazing story which eventually played out in real life on British TV screens in 1988......and I watched that episode of "That's life" on TV on that Sunday when he the real Nicholas Winterton met the children  he helped save as adults, that he and his fellow volunteers helped to get out of Czechoslovakia in 1938 before the Munich agreement- An extremely powerful film much like "Schindler's List"....and in the film the audience members in those recreated TV scenes is made up in part of the real children and grandchildren of the actual people who were on our TV screens in 1988.

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  @franciskafayeszter4138 · 2 years ago

  About Spotlight: I'm Catholic and we watched Spotlight with our youth group at church exactly to learn and not to sweep the whole issue under the rug. We were told, that the one thing worse than what happened at the sexual abuse scandal with the victims was how the Catholic church handled the situation. We were told to learn from this and if we, as future members or even leaders of local church communities encounter something like that, we should do what's right and make the necessary steps, inform the local authorities, the bishop,etc. ASAP, so that such horrible things may never happen again.

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  @maxmccarty3131 · 2 years ago

  Judgement at Nuremberg I think is a must-watch as well, and quite accurate in the finer details of what happened during the trials when German citizens were tried for their participation in the Holocaust. Fantastic film about ethics, patriotism, and impartiality in the face of absolute horror.<br><br>Also more recently, The Zone of Interest. One of the few films to make me feel sick with just sound design, but the details were so exacting that the sound was mixed to accurately capture the proximity of firing squads and ovens to the Hoss home. The film was shot remarkably close to the exact location that the family lived over the border wall of Auschwitz, and one character even wears the dress of a Polish girl who secreted food to people in the camp, and filmed at that woman&apos;s home. It is dedicated to her.

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  @docstockandbarrel · 2 years ago

  I noticed Mel Brooks&apos; History of the World wasn&apos;t on this list...

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  @michaelmanzana210 · 2 years ago (edited)

  They are actually quite wrong about the movie hotel rwanda. I had to read a whole novel in my College African History class, that is about one of the Tutsi refugees in the hotel, and how his characterization of Paul Russabagina is almost the complete opposite of what is depicted on film. The filmmakers essentially only told the story from his perspective, and it turns out he was using the hotel for profit had a lot of shady ties to Hutu militant groups and treated refugees horribly. The filmmakers essentially did not speak to anyone except him, though the accuracy of the &nbsp;depiction of the genocide still makes the movie worth watching &nbsp;but i would not put it on this list as it portrays Paul as a similar person to Schindler

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  @Blownapart23 · 2 years ago

  I watched “Come and See” about three years ago during my sophomore year of college. I was in my dorm alone and it was around <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2VVtE6LDFA&amp;t=600">10:00</a> when I finished the movie. Genuinely one of the most terrifying films I ever experienced. I cried and went on a long reflective walk afterwards.

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